The government attacks Borrell: it delivers a protest note

The Venezuelan government on Tuesday delivered a note of protest to the European Union (EU) chargé d’affaires in that country, Rachel Roumet, following statements by the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, which he described as “dictatorial.” to the Executive of Nicolás Maduro.

Through a post on X, Venezuela’s Vice Minister for Europe, Coromotoy Godoy, reported the delivery of the complaint note to Roumet for Borrell’s “continuous interventionist statements.”

“Venezuela is respected, we will not tolerate any more interference in our country. The European Union must address its problems, because its plans against our democracy have failed as always,” said Godoy, who shared a photograph of the meeting with the European official.

On Sunday, Borrell described Maduro’s government as “dictatorial” and “authoritarian,” referring to what he considers “arbitrary” arrests since opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia had to leave the Caribbean country for Spain after requesting political asylum, after denouncing “political and judicial” persecution.

Borrell said in an interview with the Spanish private television channel Telecinco that saying that the Venezuelan regime is “dictatorial” does not solve anything, but rather it is about trying to resolve things and that sometimes requires “a certain verbal restraint.”

“But let us not deceive ourselves about the nature of things. Venezuela has called elections, but it was not a democracy before and it is even less so after,” added the head of European diplomacy.

Borrell referred to the arrests, the departure of Edmundo González from the country and also to the “thousand limitations” to which political parties are subjected or to the fact that “seven million Venezuelans have fled their country.”

“What do you call all this? Well, of course, this is a dictatorial, authoritarian, dictatorial regime,” stressed the head of European diplomacy.

González Urrutia arrived in Madrid on September 8, considering that he was suffering persecution in Venezuela after the presidential elections, whose official victory was awarded by the National Electoral Council (CNE) to Maduro, a result later validated by the Supreme Court of Justice, although questioned inside and outside the country..